Intertextuality

My example of intertextuality comes from my favorite TV show, Family Guy. In this certain episode, the show opens with the theme music from Jackass, which is the first clue of intertextuality. The men are watching an episode of Jackass and are laughing hysterically at the stupidity of the guys on the show and decide to try it themselves. The next scene are the men doing ridiculously stupid stunts and filming them, finding themselves terribly hurt, but of course it’s funny. The whole episode they do stupid things, just like the guys on Jackass.

            Opening the show with the Jackass music creates an immediate allusion to the show. The interaction between these two shows because apparent almost immediately. The opening music almost sets the scene for what this certain episode is going to offer. But overall, it interacts two hysterical shows into one, which makes that certain Family Guy episode even funnier.

 Here is the link to a clip of the episode: 

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Blue Highways

like the book so far. I have a feeling it is going to be hard to get into, but it will be done. I absolutely loved the last book, and I hope I can enjoy this one just as much. It is definitely different than the first book so far, that I can tell. Over break I did think about the last book. I think I thought about it because I was traveling and obsessing over the book and telling my friends to read it. My travel experience over break was good, I suppose. I absolutely hate flying, I am the worst flyer in the whole world, so traveling for me is a bit stressful. I am a big wimp when it comes to flying. But we got to Florida; things were great until an hour after we got there, by friend broke her nose in the pool. She thought it would be a great idea to swim from one end of the pool to another without coming up for air, and her eyes were closed. Genious. So we had to travel 45 minutes to the hospital at 2 in the morning. So my first day of break was just FULL of travel. After that, everything was great until we had to travel back to good old Oxford, Ohio..